Public Hospitals & Health Services - Capital Projects

The 2006-07 State Budget provides $1.26 billion over four years for new health and aged care building projects. This funding further continues the Government’s commitment to providing the infrastructure needed to support the delivery of high quality, accessible health and aged care services.

Metropolitan Capital Works 2006 / 2007

Royal Children's Hospital - $847.4 million

The Government commits a total of $847.4 million to re-build the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) to the west of the existing site. The existing hospital buildings will be demolished with the exception of two modern buildings on the site, the front entry building and the ten-storey research centre, which will be retained as part of the new hospital. The remainder of the existing site will be returned to parkland. The new RCH will have the capacity to treat an extra 35,000 patients a year with improved accommodation and facilities such as more single rooms, neonatal cots and operating theatres with parking for 2,000 cars in a new underground car park.

Royal Melbourne Hospital Emergency Department Redevelopment - $56.3 million

The 2006-07 Budget allocates $56.3 million for the redevelopment of the Royal Melbourne
Hospital emergency department to meet the growing need for and increasingly complexity of emergency health care at the hospital. The redevelopment will increase treatment cubicles from 36 to 58, increase the Short Stay Observation Unit and Medical Assessment Planning Unit from 15 to 42 beds and improve the capacity of the hospital to treat emergency patients within benchmark times.

Box Hill Hospital Redevelopment Stage 1 - Outpatients and Dialysis Centre and Associated Redevelopment Works - $38.2 million

The Government has committed $38.2 million for the first stage of redevelopment of the Box Hill Hospital and for critical infrastructure works in advance of the planned redevelopment. The first stage will expand the size of the hospital site and develop a new building on the corner of Arnold Street and Spring Street. This will provide vital extra services and a new, expanded car park for the hospital, making way for the redevelopment stages to follow. Facilities to be provided will include a brand new 16-chair renal dialysis service, new office accommodation for the Eastern Health management and future consulting suites to expand a range of ambulatory services.

Casey Residential Aged Care - $34.5 million

The Government has committed $34.5 million to establish a new 100-bed residential aged care facility in the City of Casey. The facility will provide modern residential accommodation to replace existing facilities at the Kingston Centre in poor physical condition providing limited privacy and dignity of care. The relocation of beds to the outer southeast suburbs of Melbourne will improve accessibility.

Kingston Centre - Kitchen Upgrade and Associated Works - $25.5 million

Funding is provided as a first stage of the Kingston Centre redevelopment, to upgrade the production kitchen and a range of associated engineering services infrastructure. The upgrade of the kitchen will increase the capacity of the Kingston Centre to deliver meals to public hospitals and other sites across the southern metropolitan area. The funding also supports further planning and preliminary design for the full redevelopment of the site.

Caulfield General Medical Centre Logistics Building and Associated Works - $23.5 million

The Budget allocates $23.5 million for the upgrade of services at the Caulfield General Medical Centre. The first stage of the full redevelopment will establish a logistics building and provide new accommodation for a receiving kitchen, engineering services, materials management and plant. The works will replace critical elements of the electrical engineering infrastructure and support further planning and preliminary design for the full redevelopment of the site.

Alfred Hospital Intensive Care Unit - $20.2 million

Funding is allocated to redevelop and upgrade the Alfred Hospital Intensive Care Unit. This funding will enable the Alfred Hospital to continue to provide high quality medical services to patients requiring intensive care in the best practice clinical environment.

North Richmond Community Health Centre - $19 million

Funding of $19 million is allocated to relocate the two existing sites of the North Richmond

Community Health Centre into one purpose built facility. This funding will provide new capacity and improved access to allied health, counselling, community nursing, dental health and community mental health services across the City of Yarra.

Austin Biomedical Alliance - $9.2 million

$9.2 million is allocated for a new bioresources facility at Austin Health. The Austin Biomedical Alliance represents all research interests at Austin Health, including the separate research institutes, the University of Melbourne and hospital-based research groups. Government has already contributed $8.25 million to construct the first stage of the teaching, training and research (TTR) redevelopment, building on investment in the Austin Hospital redevelopment. The new state-of-the-art bioresources facility is the second stage of the TTR redevelopment.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Mental Health, Stage 1 - $9 million

The Government has committed $9 million to advance planning and design for an extended clinical care facility on the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital site. This early developmental work will support planning for the entire site, including health and aged care facilities, as well as the development of secure long stay mental health beds, patient and treatment areas and other services. This funding will also provide therapeutic facilities for the use of veterans and others with a range of health problems, including mental health, dementia and physical disabilities, through the construction of a gymnasium and hydrotherapy pool on the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital site.

Monashlink Community Health Service Stage 1 – Clayton - $6.6 million

$6.6 million is provided for Stage 1 of the redevelopment of the Monashlink Community Health Service (MLCHS). Funding will relocate the Clayton site of the Community Health Service to a new facility as part of a major community services redevelopment being undertaken by the City of Monash. The new facilities will enable MLCHS to provide 10 dental chairs and space for 21 primary care staff, as well as being co-located with a number of Monash Council community services including family, maternal, senior citizens and children’s services.

Brunswick Human Services Precinct: Bouverie Centre Relocation - $5 million

Funding is provided to relocate the Bouverie Centre to a new purpose designed building, collocated with the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (VFST) in the new Brunswick Human Services precinct. The move to Brunswick will provide a safe environment for the treatment of children with mental illness and their families in an accessible location.

Aged Care Land Bank Pilot - $4.8 million

The Budget allocates $4.8 million for the Aged Care Land Bank Pilot to increase the number of high care residential aged care services within the inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne. The government will provide not-for-profit aged care providers with access to surplus government land, facilitating the establishment of urgently needed high care beds in the inner and middle suburbs.

Koori Youth Alcohol and Drug Healing Service – $3.7 million

Funding is allocated as part of the Aboriginal Affairs package for a Koori Youth Alcohol and Drug Healing Service that will provide a residential facility for young Koori people with substance abuse problems. The facility will provide a safe and secure environment in which young people can participate in a range of culturally appropriate interventions within a spiritual healing framework, provide ongoing support to Koori youth to reintegrate into community living and ensure and promote lasting change.

ICU Equipment - $3.7 million

$3.7 million will enable the expansion of Intensive Care Services by opening 6 adult ICU beds and 4 neo-natal ICU cots across metropolitan Melbourne and 12 special care nursery cots across the metropolitan area.

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